Improvement in postage or revenue stamps



D. G. BEAUMONT. PUSTAGEOR REVENUE STAMPS.

No. 192,893. Patented July 10, 18771 wnuessasQ I mvnmm:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID G. BEAUMONT, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

IMPROVEMENT IN POSTAGE OR REVENUE STAMPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 192,898, dated July 10, 1877 application filed May 12, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID GREENLEAF BEAUMONT, of Austin, in the county of Travis, and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Postage and Revenue Stamps, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 represents a piece of the prepared paper before the stamps have been printed upon it. Fig. 2 is a section of the same taken through the line w m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents the same after it has been printed and punctured.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish postage and revenue stamps which shall be so constructed thatthey cannot be used a second time, and which may be used as conveniently as stamps made in the usual Way.

The invention consists in postage and revenue stamps printed upon paper having parallel incisions formed in it, and which is pasted to the paper to which the muoilage is applied, as hereinafter fully described.

The stamps are made of two thicknessesof paper, the lower one, A, to which the lnucilage is applied, and the upper one, B, upon which the stamps are printed. The paper B ing the stamps so that they cannot be again used.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A postage or revenue stamp, composed of two superposed sheets orlayers, A B, the top layer carrying the printed designs, having parallel incisions therein, and the bottom layer being provided with adhesive material on the back, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 1

DAVID GREEN LEAF BEAUMONT. Witnesses:

E. L. BEAUMONT, A. A. FLEMING-- 

